[kj] OT swine flu

[bongo]

seems all the punters in nz want tamiflu, bit of a craze going round... as
of friday, it will become available as a non-prescription ('over the
counter') drug. $70 for 5 pills.
there's money in them thar swines . . .

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Paul Gorman [Home]
<PaulGorman at ireland.com>wrote:


>  “Any more info on the shareholding of Tamiflu, are they really **major**

> shareholders?...”

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> Can only find this on Rumsfeld and Bush:

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> http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gilead_Sciences

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> In January 1997, Donald Rumsfeld<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_Rumsfeld>,

> a Board member since 1988, was appointed Chairman of the company.[7]<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gilead_Sciences#_note-6>He stood down from the Board in January 2001 when appointed Secretary

> of Defense<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Secretary_of_Defense&action=edit>at the start of George

> W. Bush <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush>'s

> first term as President. Federal disclosure forms indicate that Rumsfeld

> owns between USD$5 million and USD$25 million in Gilead stock. The rise in

> Gilead's share prices from USD$35 to USD$57 per share will have added

> between USD$2.5 million to USD$15.5 million to Rumsfeld's net worth. [8]<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gilead_Sciences#_note-7>

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> In November 2005, George W. Bush urged Congress to pass $7.1 billion in

> emergency funding to prepare for the possible H5N1(bird flu) pandemic, of

> which one billion is solely dedicated to the purchase, and distribution of

> Tamiflu.

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